Sonia Qureshi
@soniaqureshipid
PedsID clinician and researcher @AKUGlobal with an interest in Typhoid, diarrhoea, AMR, COVID-19 and Primary Immunodeficiency
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17-03-2019 08:18:15
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Peds infectious disease fellowship Aga Khan University -Accepting applications for 2024. Click on link👇 aku.edu/mcpk/fellowshi…
🎬Remember the children of #Larkana who got HIV? They have to take meds for life. Fatima Mir of Aga Khan University talks about a simple innovation that makes that process easier for parents. She is known as the "HIV lady" for her work in this area. She also told us about some
So UW Global Health World Health Organization (WHO) and other stakeholders decided to study Shigella across 3 continents. In Pakistan, Aga Khan University's Farah Qamar started gathering data. On Oct 12, 2023, she and her team shared their initial findings in #Karachi. (We can't share the exact data until they publish)
We feel that the work done by Farah Qamar Tahir.Yousafzai and the rest of the AKU Paediatrics team since 2016, to work with Federal Directorate of Immunization (FDI) World Health Organization (WHO) Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance has had a real world impact for children from Sukkur to Karachi.
In 2016 there was an outbreak in #Hyderabad. AKU Paediatrics worked hard on a vaccine Read the story of our 🔬XDR Typhoid 🧪 journey. aku.edu/mcpk/paeds/Pag…
Farah Qamar OUCRU Co-investigator Sonia Qureshi and coordinators Saniya Siddiqui and Naveed Ahmed report that 16,807 patients were screened.
Farah Qamar OUCRU Sonia Qureshi The team visited NICH, JPMC to see prescreening and screening files, enrollment, and temperature logs, ensuring the precision and quality of data. They discussed consent-taking procedure and the performance evaluation of RDTs, crucial for refining protocols of trial. The @OUCRU
Farah Qamar OUCRU Sonia Qureshi OuCru A discussion on the challenges of the follow-up for the blood samples in the trial. Farah Qamar mentions Ramazan is a challenge as people don’t want to give blood until after the fast. So the team plans around it.
When Farah Qamar’s patients started dying, years ago, she started investigating. What she discovered was just the tip of the iceberg in #Pakistani children. If children have too many infections requiring hospitalisation or antibiotics, you have to get them checked.
Signs of Tuberculosis in children​ Dr Fatima Mir Fatima Mir is the head of Infectious Disease at AKU Paediatrics. She answers some common questions of Tuberculosis in children: When children get Tuberculosis or TB, they are more likely to get extra pulmonary TB, which means
Proud to represent Aga Khan University at the National Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Summit and to be at the forefront of AMR combative measures with Sadia Shakoor,Nosheen Nasir and Iffat Khanum. MMIDSP NIH @MoNHSRC Adil Haider Fatima Mir
Allyson Russell of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance checks out our automated blood culture lab work and systems. Farah Qamar at AKU Paediatrics says that most labs in Pakistan test manually but there is a push to automate globally. We have it at Aga Khan University. Prof. Farah Qamar has been working for over
Prof. Farah Qamar's concern is one of the worst complications of #Typhoid fever: ileal perforation or holes in the intestine for children. 📸Farah Qamar and Allyson Russell of @Gavi visited NICH and JPMC with Dr Tahir Yousafzai and Dr Sonia Qureshi
Honored to present our Karachi Enteropathogen Sewage Surveillance study (KEPS) to key government stakeholders, highlighting its role in early outbreak detection and the potential for national scale-up to strengthen public health systems. NIH Aga Khan University @AsiaPGI Farah Qamar
Thrilled to step into the role of Associate Professor Aga Khan University. Grateful to my mentors, colleagues and supportive family for shaping this journey. Excited to continue contributing to education, research and clinical excellence while mentoring the next generation of physicians.
